Yamamotoyama

Excellent cheap tea for a college student. This is my go to for green tea!

Tasty genmai cha, one of my favourites. The best part – it’s inexpensive, but tastes as good as the more expensive ones I’ve tried.

It’s a bag tea. A cheapo bag tea.
Another product of my late-night adventure shopping.
It smells like pot.
I’ve never smoked marijuana, but I know what it smells like. It smells like this tea. Well, a lot stronger than this tea, which has a very weak scent, but you get the idea.
Guess how it tastes.
I’ll give you a hint. Bad.

You can taste the brown rice!

180 F 2 min; resteep 3 min. Golden infusion, flavors of moss, smoke, touch of caramel. Hoji-cha is traditional Japanese “roasted green tea.” To me, its uniqueness lies precisely in that counterpoint of greenness to toastiness. These tea leaves were harvested in Uji and Shizuoka, Japan.

This is a delicous, delicate jasmine tea.

Going to make a pot <3 <3

Very plesant taste and smell. Worth every penny. It’s my go-to tea for when I need something slightly bitter but relaxing.
This one stays in my collection <3

I haven’t had too many different types of oolong, but from what I have tried this is my absolute all-time favorite! It’s wonderful plain or with a bit of sugar and goes great with Chinese take-out.

One of my favourite Oolongs (from a bag). It’s a smooth tea with something almost vanilla-y about it. It’s good hot or iced and has a wonderful aroma.

A nice warm mug of my fave genmai-cha to help me code through the night. =)

I wanted one of my absolute favorites for my afternoon tea. I made this with a bit of matcha powder (http://steepster.com/teas/maeda-en/2498-shiki-matcha-powder) to give it a kick~

Been steadily drinking genmai-cha all morning. We’re on our third refill now~

Went very well with my bagel with spinach & artichoke cream cheese breakfast. Bringing it to keep me awake in classes today. It should not legal to have classes before 10am.

I love mixing my genmai cha with matcha (http://steepster.com/teas/maeda-en/2498-shiki-matcha-powder)! The matcha definitely gives it a little kick that I especially need when it’s one of those mornings.

I usually drink the loose leaves genmai cha from Yamamotoyama but since I’m at my parents’ for the holiday I only have the tea bags from Yamamotoyama. Both are yummy but I prefer my usual loose leaves better. It tastes more rich.